Janatu V. Sesay

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Research OfficerBiotechnologist

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Ms Janatu Sesay is a Research Officer in Plant Botany and also Associate Lecturer in Biotechnology at the Department of Biological Science, Njala University. Miss Sesay holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Education and a Master of Science in Crop Science from Njala University, followed by a Master of Philosophy in Plant Botany from the University of Ghana, Legon. Ms Sesay joined the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute in 2009 as Research Assistant in Biotechnology/Tissue Culture Ms Sesay has carried out research in plant tissue culture and molecular biology. Since 2016, she has been the Biotechnologist on the mutagenesis of cassava and rice, a project sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ms Sesay did newsletters for the IAEA on some mostly domesticated crop plants in Sierra Leone. Ms Sesay is presently a Doctoral student working on the biodiversity and on molecular characterization of selected cassava varieties in Sierra Leone with aim of genome profiling.